Argia (mythology)

For other uses, see Argia (disambiguation).

Argia /ɑːrˈdʒaɪə/, Argea /ɑːrˈdʒiːə/, or Argeia^[1] (Ancient Greek: Ἀργεία, romanized: Argeía) may refer to several figures in Greek mythology:

• Argia, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.^[2] She was the mother of Phoroneus, by her brother Inachus, a river-god of Argos.^[3] Argeia may also have been the mother (by Inachus) of Io.^[4]
• Argia, wife of Polybus and mother of Argus.^[5] The later was the builder of the ship Argo from the story of Jason and the Argonauts.^[6] Others credited Danaus^[7] or Arestor^[8] to be this Argus' father.
• Argia, an Argive princess as the daughter of King Adrastus and Amphithea, daughter of Pronax. She married Polynices, son of Oedipus and bore him three sons: Thersander,^[9] Adrastus and Timeas.
• Argia, a Theban princess as the daughter of King Autesion. She married Aristodemus and became the mother of twins, Eurysthenes and Procles, the ancestors of the two royal houses of Sparta.^[10]
• Argeia, was also an epithet of the Greek goddess Hera derived from Argos, the principal seat of her worship.

Notes

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1. Bell, p. 62.
2. Bane, p. 34; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface.
3. Hyginus, Fabulae 143.
4. Hyginus, Fabulae 145.
5. Hyginus, Fabulae 14.2.
6. Turner and Coulter, p. 67.
7. Hyginus, Fabulae 14.5.
8. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.111–112.
9. Hyginus, Fabulae 69.
10. Herodotus, 6.

References

• Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, edited and translated by William H. Race, Loeb Classical Library No. 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-99630-4. Online version at Harvard University Press.
• Bane, Theresa, Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology, McFarland, 2013. ISBN 9780786471119.
• Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-Clio. 1991. ISBN 9780874365818, 0874365813.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Herodotus, The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library.
• Turner, Patricia, Charles Russell Coulter, Dictionary of Ancient Deities. 2001.